In 1994 Pete Seeger visited Utah to perform with Children’s Dance Theatre in Salt Lake City. Before his arrival, Provenzano asked the theater director if she would pass along his request that Seeger write a special song for the 25th anniversary of Earth Day. Specifically a song about trees.

Who better, Provenzano thought, than the international folk poet laureate of three generations? What better message than the simple act of planting a tree? What better time than now?

After weeks with no response, Provenzano got a call and was soon on his way to pick up Seeger at nearby Alta ski resort. When he arrived, Provenzano describes “this snow-haired sage answered the door half asleep and said very little. After introductions, he retreated into a back room and emerged with two pages of hand-written sheet music, and handed me this song.”